Recruited in March and trained in May, 98 Community Knowledge Workers have now started delivering vital information to farmers in the Kapchorwa district of Eastern Uganda. With the pictures in the slideshow adjacent, retrace their steps from ordinary farmers, now to ICT enabled extension workers.
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CKWs: A New Agricultural Extension Channel
Grameen Foundation believes that a network of Community Knowledge Workers (CKWs) can use cutting edge mobile technology to take agricultural extension and advisory services to the most remote, hardest to reach and often poorest farmers and thereby empower them out of poverty. We are building such a network in Uganda. You are welcome to explore our work.
Data Collection
Leading agricultural organizations like the UN World Food Program are working through our network of CKWs to learn about about farmer's conditions, needs and practices. Mobile data collection has for many of these organizations proved cheaper, faster and more versatile that traditional paper form research. See more on how your organization can tap into our deep network for its data needs.
Information Services
Agricultural extension organizations and other expert bodies that generate and distribute farming knowledge are now instantaneously disseminating it to far flung farmers through our mobile handset-enabled CKW network. NARO and FIT Uganda are just two of our content partners. Work through us. Get your information out to farmers who need it. See what we are currently informing farmers on
Technology
We are happy to share our cutting edge technology or even innovate for other mobile for development projects. Click for a sneak preview of what we have to offer.
